Per-request API keys defeat caching
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if you have to have an API key, you're changing the request metadata,
Episode 84: All Aboard to On-Board! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:50:50 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Arguing for opening some Podcast Index endpoints without API keys, Dave notes that signed per-request metadata makes every call look unique to caching proxies like Cloudflare, so nothing can be cached. Keyless endpoints are cacheable and simpler for app developers.
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Episode 84: All Aboard to On-Board! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:50:58 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
And so it all looks to the caching proxies, as if they're, they're calls that can't be that can't be cached, can't be duplicated.
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